In previous Fedora distros was (IMHO) right way to log only to syslog,
without journald and its (for me) unwanted annoying binary logs, by using
configuration as:
*) Set systemd log target to syslog:
systemd.log_target=syslog (syslog-or-kmsg) ---- on kernel cmdline
systemd.default_standard_output=syslog --/
and
LogTarget=syslog ---- in systemd.conf
DefaultStandardOutput=syslog --/
*) configuring rsyslog to listen on /dev/log unix socket:
$SystemLogSocketName /dev/log ------ in rsyslog.conf
$ModLoad imuxsock ----/
$OmitLocalLogging off ---/
$AddUnixListenSocket /run/systemd/journal/syslog --/(legacy directives)
$AddUnixListenSocket /run/systemd/journal/socket -/
$AddUnixListenSocket /run/systemd/journal/stdout /
(not sure when all last three directives needed)
*) prevent to run journald:
systemctl mask systemd-journald.service
(and maybe mask systemd-journal-flush.service)
And it works fine.
But in actual Fedora 24 in systemd man page values syslog-or-kmsg and
syslog are missing in LogTarget option. As systemd/journald man pages
say hardly anything about exact mean of appropriate configuration for
this purpose, then please when someone more knowledgeable can advise:
- where to direct the systemd output? Maybe to kmsg an then read it in
rsyslog via imklog?
(rsyslog should have also imkmsg module, but is not in rsyslog-8.12.0-3.fc24)
- what about /run/log/journal/.../system.journal ?
On my test F24 system it have open rsyslogd, abrt-dump-journal-oops and
abrt-dump-journal-xorg (no need for these last two) processes. Uses it
also something else?
- what about /run/systemd/journal/{dev-log,socket,stdout} unix sockets?
Should rsyslogd listen on them?
- /dev/log seems be now symlink to /run/systemd/journal/dev-log socket
(as defined by systemd-journald-dev-log.socket) Should it be left
(because now something sends to /run/systemd/journal/dev-log), or can
be /run/systemd/journal/dev-log removed?
Thanks in advance for some clarification about this.
Franta Hanzlik

Hi,
Because Anaconda doesn't support my usual partitioning scheme (root on Btrfs in LVM in LUKS in LVM in GPT, /boot on Btrfs, etc.), I created the entire layout manually and tried to install Fedora using dnf. The same layout works perfectly fine in ArchLinux.
I basically followed this howto, with adjustments for s/yum/dnf/ and for EFI/GPT: http://dustymabe.com/2014/05/29/manual-linux-installs-with-funky-storage-...
The initial filesystem installation (dnf install -y --releasever=23 --installroot=/mnt/sysimage filesystem) already got a few glitches of this form:
Non-fatal POSTIN scriptlet failure in rpm package filesystem
This^^^ happened to roughly half of the installed packages. I tried to proceed with the rest (i.e., to install @core @standard kernel grub2 grub2-efi sihm grub2-tools), but it failed with scriptlet errors that prevented a few key packages from getting installed at all:
error: %prein(selinux-policy-targeted-3.13.1-157.fc23.noarch) scriptlet failed, exit status 126
Error in PREIN scriptlet in rpm package selinux-policy-targeted
Packages with those errors are reported as failed after the verify step. What I tried next:
* setenforce 0
* upgrading the installation environment and/or the sysimage with dnf and rpm from rawhide
* --releasever=22 instead of 23
* ...and checking for a few other common points with this bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1270663
* a plain sysimage directory with no predefined Btrfs subvolumes in it
* unmounting, remounting, checking that everything has seclabel on, no weirdness in dmesg, etc.
Well, nothing of the above helped; the error is still the same.
How can I diagnose this? Where can I dig out the exact reason why the scriptlets are failing?
Provided that Anaconda actually does some steps that I'm missing and can carry out the installation correctly, is there a way to *force* it to just accept whatever is mounted into /mnt/sysimage at the moment, without trying to make sense of it? I'm pretty sure dracut can handle my partition layout just fine, so the entire issue here is about getting the basic installation done somehow.
Theoretically I could create a simple-and-stupid layout that Anaconda can handle, proceed with the installation and reshuffle the partitions afterwards, but that's sooo cumbersome that I thought I'd first ask whether someone knows a workaround to the scriptlet problems.
Cheers,
Andrej

Hi
I'm testing Electrum on Fedora 25 and I'm missing the support for
hardware wallet that Electrum is supposed to have. Do I need to install
some additional package or has this feature been omitted?
Cheers
Mark

Since I upgraded to Fedora 25, I've had terrible network performance, and
I'm not sure what's causing it.
Any suggestions for troubleshooting or optimization?
Any known issues with the "Intel Wireless 7265D" card or the "iwlwifi"
driver in F25?
Everything worked great in F24, but since F25, I get poor download speeds,
and *REALLY* poor upload speeds. I should get a steady 25/25 Mbps down/up.
Instead, I get an unsteady 6-20 Mbps down, and only ~1 Mbps up. I've ruled
out everything but Fedora 25 (same hardware works fine in F24 and Windows),
and it's making me kinda want to go back to F24. :(
--
Christopher

The r8712u driver from the staging area has stopped working in Fedora
25. This driver supports (among others) my emergency USB DLink DWA-130
adapter that I use when the laptop's built in wireless (Qualcomm
Atheros QCA9377 802.11ac) is "too advanced" to connect to some old
wireless router.
The r8712u driver works just fine in Fedora 24 and it seems to be
substantially unchanged.
I ran 'modinfo r8712u' on both F24 and F25 and diff'd them.
The only differences are in the filesystem locations and labelling.
There was no other substantial difference.
I've monitored dmesg while plugging the DLink adapter in and it's
apparent that
1 - it is detected with proper vendor and product IDs.
2 - the r8712u module is selected and registered.
3 - the correct firmware is loaded from rtlwifi/rtl8712u.bin
4 - an endless stream of messages ensues:
[ 262.524809] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan1: link is not ready
and, of course, the new interface never becomes available to
NetworkManager.
What's gone wrong?
Why does the same driver work in Fedora 24 but not in Fedora 25?
How do I regain operability?
--
David A. De Graaf DATIX, Inc. Hendersonville, NC
dad(a)datix.us www.datix.us

.
About a week ago I began to have a
problem with gphoto2 which normally just
works.
I don't use it every day and I don't
know exactly when it began doing this
but there were updates from Fedora and
Apple. The only thing I found via Google
was mention of a lock problem and this
does not appear to be a lock problem.
The camera is detected:
photosnew]$ gphoto2 --auto-detect
Model Port
----------------------------------------------------------
Apple iPhone 5 (PTP mode) usb:003,006
[bobg@box10 photosnew]$ gphoto2
--get-all-files
However any command to download from the
camera yields the following error:
photosnew]$ gphoto2 --get-all-files
*** Error ***
PTP Invalid Storage ID
*** Error (-1: 'Unspecified error') ***
For debugging messages, please use the
--debug option.
Debugging messages may help finding a
solution to your problem.
If you intend to send any error or debug
messages to the gphoto
developer mailing list
<gphoto-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net>,
please run
gphoto2 as follows:
env LANG=C gphoto2 --debug
--debug-logfile=my-logfile.txt
--get-all-files
Please make sure there is sufficient
quoting around the arguments.
I dunno what to do, any help appreciated,
Bob
--
Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA
http://www.qrz.com/db/W2BOD
box10 FEDORA-25/64bit LINUX XFCE Fastmail POP3

Hi,
Some time ago I was using this device on the 2.4GHz channel (Linux
has always refused to use the 5GHz channel, I say Linux, because Ubuntu
has always refused to use the 5GHz channel as Fedora has always refused
to) and when it was working it was via the ATH9K driver.
I switched the network to using Ethernet devices which are still
working fine, but I wanted to go back to wifi again because the wifi
throughput is potentially faster (the Ethernet devices sends/receives at
500Mbps whereas the 2.4GHz channel on wifi sends/receives at 600Mbps, if
I could ever get the 5GHz channel working it sends/receives at
1300Mbps), but Networkmanager refuses to activate the wifi device now.
How do I identify whether its the 4.8 kernels which are the issue
or whether its Networkmanager and how do I rectify the situation? I am
using kde at the moment and I have cut and pasted the wifi password back
into the Networkmanager definition, and had the new password stored in
Kwallet, but Networkmanager still refuses to recognize that the device
is a device it can connect to. I should also add that the device works
fine under Windows 10.
regards,
Steve